internship week 3A story that I think is worth telling about is my first day of internship. For those who truly know me, know that it scares me to be on my own and I have a hard time being a quiet person. I am the only intern from High Tech here.
I came in, introduced myself and asked for my mentor. The secretary, Chris, told me that jovanna, my mentor, would be right out so I sat down. I sat down and I had a cup of tea in my hand because it was cold that morning. When I went to take a drink of the tea, I spilled it all over my pants! I was so embarrassed and I freaked out because I had never met anybody in this office before and what were they going to think of me?! So I asked Chris for a tissue and she thought I was going to clean my nose or something because that's what a tissue is for but I tried drying up my pants so that my mentor, who I was meeting for the first time, wouldn’t think I was just some weird girl who spills stuff all over her. My mentor came out and I ended up telling her that I spilled tea on myself because it was that noticeable. She asked me “Are you that nervous??” and I just laughed Because I wasn’t nervous, my cup just decided to spill randomly that day. I was more nervous for the second day. I was nervous because I knew what I was going to be doing and I knew I wasn’t used to doing that kind of stuff. So from the first day on, I have been sitting at a computer for about six or more hours a day, trying to figure out how to edit this website (that’s my project) and make it look nice. I am more used to it now, but it still isn’t my favorite thing in the world.
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The qualities or characteristics that I see in the people around me that I want to develop in myself is being involved. Today I went to drop off some stuff at another center with my mentor and then we went to a meeting and I thought it was going to be some boring meeting about something I wouldn’t understand but the meeting was with a bunch of organizations that help families in need (of shelter most likely) and there wasn’t a second of it that I thought was boring. From the moment I introduced myself, I was excited, and I learned so much, I would do it again.
The reason I say that I see being involved in the people around me and I want to develop it in myself is because when my mentor, Jovanna, has told me she was going to meetings, I always thought they were just meetings (Boring) but they're meetings for a good cause and really informative. Jovanna is really involved with the community and all of these amazing organizations and I look up to that a lot. I think it's amazing how she keeps in touch with all of these organizations and wants to make the community a better place. I want to develop it in myself because I think it is such an amazing thing to be involved with the community and I am happy to be surrounded by people that are, with this internship. I am excited to see what other opportunities I get during this time that I am here because it made me happy to see what I did today in that informative meeting. I started my internship a couple of days ago and I have to work a lot of hours in one week. My schedule is from 8 AM to 4 PM, Monday through Friday. It is very quiet in the office, and I am not used to it because I am not a very quiet girl. It is weird to have gone from being in a room full of noisy teenagers everyday, to a silent office full of hard working people. I am used to being around noise and people my age but for the next month I will be sitting at a desk designing the new home page for the Chula Vista Community Collaborative website.
What strikes me most about my workplace is the kind of work I am doing. I was expecting to go out and help so many people because even by the name of the organization, that's what it sounds like I would be dong. The kind of work I am doing is office work. Which makes sense because I am in an office, but I didn’t expect it to be like this. Overall, I am not discouraged by the work I am doing, I just don’t think I am fit for this kind of work, considering the kind of person I am and the personality I have. Even though this is not at all what I expected, I will still do my best to complete the work I am given, put all of my effort forward, and be excited to be here everyday, in order to make the best out of this month that I will be here! |
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